Monday, March 2, 2009

March which is 9.5 months of looking

Hello, today is March 2, 2009 which is the first work day of the month unless you live on the east coast which I do. Then it is just a snow day. Neither really matter to me since for the last 9.5 months I have had the same job looking for one. When I first lost my job or had it eliminted in May I had high hopes of finding a new one within weeks. A trip to my local DOL One stop employment center told me that it would be months, but I was going to be the exception to the rule.

Many interviews and "so you do not have a job" support group meetings later I am still out there. The thing of it is that many other people have joined me since I have undertake this journey, like 2 million have joined me. Which makes it harder. Tomorrow I will find out if I have run out of unemployment benefits. I did not want to do it today seeing as it is a snow day and I could not call to find out if there was a mistake. I think there was an extentsion but I am not sure that I get it. I also get to find out if I get the COBRA bail out that some people are getting. If not I will see more of my savings disappear.

Well since I am depressing myself not something that you should do when you are unemployeed, staying positive is VERY important, I will end it here and give up an update on where I stand tomorrow. Tomorrow I will talk the new version of it is not you it is us.

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